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samclemens

24,630karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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37 pts
Did Thomas Pynchon Publish a Novel Under the Pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson?(harpers.org)
11y ago·27 comments
216 pts
Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy(theguardian.com)
11y ago·94 comments
18 pts
Rarities from My Grandfather’s House of Books(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
5 pts
Clearing Up Ambiguity(nybooks.com)
11y ago·discuss
1 pts
Willie and the Weed Factory(gq.com)
11y ago·discuss
12 pts
The Sleep Deaths That Inspired Freddy Krueger(vanwinkles.com)
11y ago·discuss
228 pts
How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive(theatlantic.com)
11y ago·125 comments
14 pts
From Pony Express to Amazon Drone: The History of Delivering Packages(atlasobscura.com)
11y ago·1 comments
29 pts
How Literary Fame Happens(chronicle.com)
11y ago·5 comments
176 pts
Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked(theawl.com)
11y ago·133 comments
113 pts
The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway(latimes.com)
11y ago·146 comments
25 pts
From Retail Palace to Zombie Mall: How Efficiency Killed the Department Store(collectorsweekly.com)
11y ago·13 comments
7 pts
The Books That Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century(hyperallergic.com)
11y ago·discuss
8 pts
A letter from Samuel Beckett to Cissie Sinclair, his aunt, dated August 14, 1937(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
197 pts
Oliver Sacks: Sabbath(nytimes.com)
11y ago·51 comments
138 pts
The Desk of Haruki Murakami(harukimurakami.com)
11y ago·72 comments
16 pts
WB Yeats, the art teacher and a night at the sexologist’s(theguardian.com)
11y ago·discuss
37 pts
Ursula K. Le Guin: By the Book(nytimes.com)
11y ago·20 comments
1 pts
Revising your writing again? Blame the Modernists (2013)(bostonglobe.com)
11y ago·discuss
12 pts
Strunk and White’s Macho Grammar Club(thedailybeast.com)
11y ago·6 comments
2 pts
A Downpour of Fish: Murakami on Stage(nybooks.com)
11y ago·discuss
10 pts
Harper Lee and the Cold War Canon(blog.historians.org)
11y ago·1 comments
10 pts
Uncovering what Thoreau uncovered(news.harvard.edu)
11y ago·discuss
14 pts
What lies beneath(aeon.co)
11y ago·discuss
21 pts
Basquiat and the Collecting of History(artnews.com)
11y ago·discuss
3 pts
A Skeleton, a Catholic Relic, and a Mystery About American Origins(theatlantic.com)
11y ago·1 comments
2 pts
The Colonial Origins of the Greek Bailout(imperialglobalexeter.com)
11y ago·discuss
16 pts
Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: On John McPhee(lareviewofbooks.org)
11y ago·4 comments
7 pts
Let There Be Light Bulbs: How Incandescents Became the Icons of Innovation(collectorsweekly.com)
11y ago·1 comments